Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,817, Luther Emes, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Ones, Luther
NUMBER
S. 34817
CONTENTS

6,483 Massachusetts
Leather Enns Private Capt Holden Mass: Line —
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of — 8 — Dollars per month, to commence on the 31 st of March 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 th of Jany: 1819 and sent to John Davis Esq. Boston Mass:
  Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 —  41. 37    Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Mar 1819  118. 00    3 mts 1/30. 4/30  $89. 31  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Ex d G. D.
Duplicate certif. issued 8 th Aug 1825 & sent to John S Lillie Boston.
Notification sent to John W Davis Esq 2 Oct 1820
Boston Massachusetts
Discharge Certificate issued 13 Sep 1820
and sent to Betsy Pardon Esq
Boston Mass

No 99 Luther Emes Priest Wrentham Mass. Pres. 1779 to 1780
borrech

Boston March 17 th 1868
I Letter Esquire of Boston in the County of Suffolk & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Do hereby Solemnly Testify & Vow, That I was Born in the Town of Sudbury in the County of Middlesex and State aforesaid in April 1760 as per Record of said Town, where I lived until Sept r 1776 when I Entitled to save a short Tower in the fall of that year, & joined a Company commanded by Capt Branson of Marlboro in said County which Company joined the Reg t Com d by Col o Elzer Brooks, we then Marcht and joined Gen l Washington's army at or near White Plains in the State of New York where we assisted in filing the Battle of White Plains, so called, and after serving full term of my enlistment, I Retired with the rest of my Company to my Native Town, and in March 1777 I again Entitled under Capt Abel Holden for the term of Three years & when ordered Marcht with my Capt and joined the 6 th Massachusetts Reg t - commanded by Col o Thos o Nelson, which then made a part of Gen l Gates army at the Northam, and there after some hard fighting had the satisfaction to see Gen l Burgoyne & his army surrender to Gen l Gates & his army, after which I continued with said Reg t until the end of my enlistment the full term of three years was completed and after receiving a pleasing Discharge I returned again to my Native Town, in March 1780. Soon after my return, a New Call for men to enlist & serve for six months in the old Regiment then in the field I then at the request of the Committee of my Town I assisted in procuring the competent number by said Town, and enlisted my self, and Marcht

and started with them & joined the army at or near Pitskill in the state of New York myself with several others were ordered to and we did join a Com y Com d by Capt. Abraham Williams which belonged to the 12 th Massachusetts Reg t - commanded by Col o Sprout. I was soon after my joining said Com y made a Corporal in which capacity I served out the full term of my enlistment, and again had another discharge & again returned to my Native Town, and there being no more pressing calls for Tilling men I did not enter the service after, and I can safely swear that in all this service I never had any kind of punishment confinement or even the least reprimand from any officer of any grade whatever,
Luther Emes
Massachusetts District } Boston 31. March Ad. 1818 }
Sworn to before me M c Deer's Dist o Judge Mass Dist
Mass. Dist. } Boston 23. April 1818. The said Luther Emes further declares and says, That he is in such reduced circumstances of life, as to stand in need of assistance from his Country for support.
Luther Emes
Massachusetts District } Boston 23. April Ad. 1818 }
Sworn to before me M c Deer's Dist. Judge Mass

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston 18 January 1819.
I AM satisfied that the above named, Luther Emes , by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
M c Davis
{ District Judge U. S. Massachusetts Dist.
TO THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston June 6
A. D. 1818
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that Luther Emery subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testimony in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the act entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war;" the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid, with the accompanying document marked A together with this certificate.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.
M. D. Davis
} Judge of the District Court U. S. Massachusetts District.

Luther Emery
640 B.
Emery
March 10/19

District of Massachusetts, ss.
ON this twenty third day of August 182 0 personally appeared, in open Court, being a Court of Record, viz. A Special District Court of the United States for the said District, Luther Eames aged Sixty years, resident in Boston in the County of Suffolk, in said District, labourer who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: viz. Enlisted in March 1777 in the company commanded by Captain Holden in the Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Colonel Nixons and served in said Corps three years principally in New York until March 1780 when he was Honourably discharged in writing but has lost it. He made his original application on the 31 day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighty. and the number of his Pension certificate is 6,483.
And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons, engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Luther Eames
Sworn to and declared, on the twenty third day of August A. D. 182 0 before
J. Davis
{ Judge of the Massachusetts District Court.
I, JOHN WATSON DAVIS, Clerk of the Massachusetts District Court, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedule hereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value, of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is twelve dollars and _____ cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twentieth day of September 182 0
J. Davis
{ Clerk of the U. S. District Court, for the Massachusetts District.

Schedule.
  Crockery Ware 5. =   6 Chairs 2. =   Iron and tin ware 3. =   Knives & forks 1. =   Pails & Boxes 1. =   $ 12.. 
The above is a true inventory and schedule of all my property. I am sixty years of age, a labourer by occupation but from the infirmities of age am unable to pursue it. I have no family residing with me.
Luther Emery.

34 817 Rev INVALID.
No. 34,817
Luther Emes
Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 129
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
By his Excellency Levi Lincoln Esquire, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over said Commonwealth.
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
Levi Lincoln
KNOW YE. That John S. Sillie Esquire is a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Suffolk
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned, and that to his Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have caused the Public Seal of the Commonwealth to be hereunto affixed, this third day of August A. D. 1825 and in the forty ninth  fiftieth year of the Independence of the United States of America.
By his Excellency the Governor.
Edward D. Bangs
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Luther Pines

Suffolk ss, Boston August 2. 1825, On this day, personally appeared before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for said county, Luther Brown, who on his oath declares, that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Capt Abel Holden, in the Regiment commanded by Col. Brown & Pison in the Revolutionary army of the U. States, that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of Massachusetts that he received a certificate of that fact, under the signature & seal of the Secretary of War, which certificate, on, or about the 5 th of March, last, he lost. Luther Brown & wishes a Duplicate Certificate
Sworn & Subscribed to, before me, the day & year aforesaid.
John S. Killeen Justice of the Peace

Luther Emes must make an affidavit, agreeably to the within form, and forward it to the War Department, properly authenticated , be- fore a new certificate can be issued for him. —
War Dept.
Pension Office,
1 Sept. 1824

APPLICATION FOR A NEW CERTIFICATE.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Suffolk ss.
On this eighth day of September 1824 ; before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Suffolk personally appeared Luther Emes who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Capt. Abel Haden in the regiment commanded by Colonel Thomas Nixon in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of Massachusetts that he received a certificate of that fact, under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War; which certificate, on or about the fifth day of July 1824, at or near Boston
he lost, and has not yet been able to find the same
Suffolk ss Boston.
Luther Emes
Sworn and subscribed to, before me, the day and year aforesaid.
Benjamin Russell
In Testimony whereof Charles H. Howard a Notary Public & Justice of the Peace for for the County of Suffolk , duly commissioned and sworn, have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal of Office. Charles H. Howard Not Public & full Office.
NOTES. The last four blanks are left for the applicant to set forth the time, place, and manner of the loss or destruction of the original certificate.
The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated, by the certificate of the proper Officer, under his seal of Office.
If the pensioner has never received a formal certificate, but has drawn his pension on a mere notification, as was the case in a few instances many years ago, he should leave out the above words in italics, and in lieu thereof, "but has never received a formal certificate, and now wishes to obtain one."

Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Secretary's Office April 11. 1818)
By this I certify, that Luther Emery was a Soldier in Capt. Holden's Company & Colo. Nixon's Regiment, one of the Regt. of the Massachusetts Line in the American army of the Revolution & on the Continental Establishment, that he enlisted the 11 th of March A.D. 1777 & continued till the 11 th of March A.D. 1780. in said Regt. as appears by an official Roll or List now remaining in this office - Alden Bradford
Secy of Commonwealth of Mass ts

Mr. Calhoun Hon. John C. Calhoun Esq. Secy of War Washington City

Hon J. C. Calhoun Secy of War
Sir,
I enclose the Capt. Jones application re I sent on from a few weeks since one very similar, which I presume miscarried. He has now procured the certificate of a Justice of the peace & Notary Public both, to be sure of right. Mr Jones prays that his certificate may be sent on as soon as convenient. I am Sir respectfully Yours &c. the Servant D. D. Parsons